This is an analysis of the poem The Pleiades At Midnight that begins with:

We are the nightly weavers
who gather the invisible threads ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba Xc XdXXeXdcfgX adhah XbX eaXbifeaehige
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,11,5,3,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 110001001 00101101 1010011 100101010010 111111010 11110110 11010001101 1010000110 10111000 1110101 1111101001010 1010110010011 111101 1110010010001101 11110101 0110101 1110100 01001010 1110101111 0101001110 10000100101 1111010 010110110001 0111 1111001001 11001010 0110101 1110 01001001000100 10101011 1111100 11000 111001 1101101 0100010001000100 0010010010 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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